Anita Akaeze
Senior Engineer at HashiCorp
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnita Akaeze is a Vancouver-based Senior Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable distributed systems and developer tooling. She programs primarily in Python, JavaScript, and Go and contributes to high-profile open-source projects like HashiCorp Consul, where her work improved integration tests and Envoy TCP/HTTP RBAC validations. At HashiCorp she led efforts to make load- and upgrade-testing frameworks deployable via Terraform across clouds and local Kubernetes, and at CircleCI she led internal tooling to detect bad releases and harden CI/CD pipelines. Her background in QA and network management (including gRPC/gNMI client work) gives her a testing-first, protocol-aware approach to platform engineering. She pairs hands-on systems work with clear documentation and UML-driven design, informed by a Master’s in Management and Information Technology from the University of St. Andrews.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Upper Second Class, Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Upper Second Class at University of LagosPost Graduate Certificate, Information Technology- Mobile Solutions Development, Post Graduate Certificate, Information Technology- Mobile Solutions Development at Conestoga CollegeMaster’s Degree, Management and Information Technology, Distinction in the Dissertation, Master’s Degree, Management and Information Technology, Distinction in the Dissertation at University of St. Andrews
Igbo, Yoruba, English
Github Skills (18)
env10
service-mesh10
envoyproxy10
testing10
consul10
go10
service-discovery10
convoy10
test-automation10
dockerce9
kubernetes9
dockers9
docker9
api-gateway9
kubernetes-pod9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:147 reviews, 1 commit, 95 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Anita's commits primarily focus on enhancing the integration tests and improving the codebase for the Consul project. They implemented assertions for validating Envoy configurations, specifically focusing on TCP filters and HTTP RBAC filters. Furthermore, the user contributed to the test suite by adding checks for container states and service health. Their work also included refactoring and restarting proxy sidecars during cluster upgrades and adding workload selector to MeshGateway protobuf definitions, highlighting their expertise in service mesh and related tooling.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
NiniOak/PopupFood
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:155 pushes, 33 branches in 2 months
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